Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

Totall agree, The N900 for me is a perect size:) And a better battery is a must. I dont understand why nokia used the same battery as the 5800 for the N900's power

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

I love the weight of my N810, yet I don't think it's as thick as the N900. I just hope:

- it has a similar size/weight/screen size as the N810
(I get comments about how cool it looks, and I wonder why Nokia didn't make it a phone).
- the bottom half will have a full keyboard (4 line) and directional pad with some space between the keyboard and the bottom of the screen
- there is some sort of directional pad for the top half of the device (so I can play games using the touch screen and the directional pad)
- full portrait/landscape support so I can use the iPhone version of some websites when I need information quickly

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

everyone is always after something better i will keep my n900 till it dies.

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I base this information on the fact that I charge the device something like ten times a week, while my coworkers do not.

Everyone who has written anything about the N900 battery time complains about it, and it's pretty much just simply true. You can get it to last a day, but you'd have to turn off stuff. It's not horrid, but it's not good. And that in a device that is thicker than most the concurrent alternatives. In short: Nokia has potential to cut thickness. And the Milestone is making my N900 look fat. I don't like the overall look of it, but they've managed to make it look slim.

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

I quite liked the photo of the N98, much more classy than the N-8, from the little I could see...

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

Nokia phones are made by finnish lumberjacks in Finland .. and ..
iPhone is actually made by aliens on another planet .. what I heard

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

Thinner or not, QWERTY is a must, preferably as tactile as on the N900 but with more head-space of the top row (several millimeters would do just fine). However, if it does sport a capacitive screen as the rumors have it - count me out! I'm not compromising the precision and touch-it-with-anything (especially nails and stylus) features for some flimsy multitouch or feather-light touch registering - for the first there is a solution from Stantum, for the second - grow some f. muscles!

As for the screen size, 4" would be optimal, I wouldn't go above that. A digital compass and an useful hot-swapping microSD slot would really be nice, and I'd literally drool if it would have an USB host connector.

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

half as thick, tmo 3g and unlocked.

and 4.3 inch oled screen and i'll kill for it.

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

Bring In The Nokia Morph Already!!!! It's been YEARS you guys been just speculating on it :(

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

Yeah, multitouch would be great, but not at the expense of no or inaccurate stylus use.

Imagine trying to open a Windows menu and select something from it with big fat fingers when using VNC or RDP.

"Oh, you could pinch zoom every time you wanted to click anything"

"Yeah, right. Please shut up."

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

Unless it was a finger-only screen and they came up with a clever way of doing pixel level accuracy. I am imagining a mouse cursor that appears just above (vertically on the screen) where you are touching, so you can see it, and a screen tap would be a click where the cursor was, not where your finger was.

And you'd have to extend the touch screen below the bottom of the lcd (make that amoled thanks).

Re: Next Maemo Device half as thick as the n900 with Qwerty
 

I agree, the only way I could consider switching to a capacitative touchscreen is if they did something like this to make up for the loss in accuracy.